Undergraduate Research Fellow, Claire Graham, started in the Howard lab as a freshman and first undergraduate student. During her four years in the lab, Claire contributed to many projects, co-authored two publications, decorated the lab, and continued to make us laugh during lab meetings. She graduates with her BS in Biomedical Engineering. We are incredibly proud that she will be continuing her education as a predoctoral student in Biomedical Engineering and Physiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN (where Dr. Howard also earned her PhD!).

The Howard lab received a philanthropic gift from the TaterTough DIPG Research Fund by Darcy and Brad Schaefer at their annual fundraising Gala. The TaterTough Foundation is committed to defeating DIPG so that no other child will have to fight like Tate Schaefer did. This spring Dr. Howard was awarded a seed grant from the Stead Family Children's Hospital Discretionary Funds from the University of lowa to study redox-related strategies to target DIPG.